Trust Operations Team
The White Rose Academies Trust prides itself on supporting its family of schools with a team of education and industry specialists, each delivering in-house, world-class services to raise and maintain our schools' standards.
Finance
Stuart Jolley
Chief Financial Officer
Stuart graduated from the University of York in 2002 with a Master’s degree in Chemistry. During the final year of his degree he was on industrial placement working in the Research and Development team at Hickson and Welch in Castleford.
Steve Etherington
Finance Manager
Steve joined Leeds West Academy in the summer of 2011, after working for Post Office Ltd for 38 years. He started at the Post Office as a counter clerk in Wetherby and worked his...
Communications & Projects
Yvonne Hare
Head of Communications and Projects
Yvonne Hare graduated from Trinity Leeds University after studying Communications, Advertising and Marketing...
Jackson Ellis-Hambley
Creative Lead & Visual Designer
Born in Leeds, Jackson comes from a family of teachers, with both parents and sister working within the education sector. He graduated from Teesside University in 2005 with a BSc Hons in Multimedia, focusing on...
Holly Kirk
Digital Communications and Content Lead
Holly lives in Ulleskelf with her husband Taylor and currently enjoys discovering the best walks around the area. She studied at Garforth Academy, just a few minutes away from her family home. Holly joined The White Rose Academies Trust in July 2018...
Alice Ryan
Trust Project Manager
Alice was born in Leeds and has lived in Horsforth all of her life with a big family of four sisters, one brother and two boxer dogs.
Alice joined The White Rose Academies Trust at the beginning of October 2018, after working in a Pharmacy for two years training to be a qualified dispenser...
Emily Hare
Trust Project Manager
Emily was delighted to successfully interview to join the White Rose Academies Trust in April 2018 as an intern during her Industrial Placement year from Northumbria University...
Matthew Stock
Trust Digital Environment Officer
Matthew lives in Garforth and studied at what is now Garforth Academy. Matthew joined Leeds West Academy in November 2015...
Lewis King
Digital Communications and Content Officer
Lewis began his career in higher education, managing internal comms at Leeds Trinity University and developing content campaigns at the University of Leeds...
Amy Armstrong
Trust Business and Marketing Officer - Undergraduate Industrial Placement
Amy is an English Literature student at Newcastle University and joined the White Rose Academies Trust in September on her Industrial Placement as Business and Marketing Officer. Amy works within the Trust’s Communication and Project’s Team on numerous projects with senior leaders from across the Trust...
Mia McTighe
Trust Business and Marketing Officer - Undergraduate Industrial Placement
Mia was born and grew up in Coventry with her parents but moved to Leeds in 2018 for University. As an undergraduate student from the University of Leeds studying BA Linguistics and Phonetics, Mia is spending her third year fulfilling an Industrial Placement with the White Rose Academies Trust...